Amarok 2 Beta 2 screenshot review

A few days ago the second beta of Amarok 2 was finally released. I have to admit that a year ago I was looking forward for the final release. But now… I’m not at all (I guess it is because of Songbird).

Anyway, this second beta release is much more better than previous versions: it works really fast, and there are many new features. For example, the developers decided to use MySQL instead of SQLite, collection statistics, stop after this track and much more.

I installed the last version on my Ubuntu using this repositories:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main

And then installing:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install amarok-nightly

And this is what we get:

Tags: Amarok, KDE

Amarok 2, development is going on

Despite KDE4 is already published, some of the main applications that should be related with it are missing. The best example is Amarok 2 which is in pre-alpha development.

There is no final release date and a lot of users want to know how about development is going on. Some of these users have been asking developers and finally we can know something new.

The process to add new features will be closed on first April. So it’s possible we’ll be able to test an alpha version during that month.

What’s new on Amarok 2?. Above all the aspect is completely different than older versions. New features have been added: now Amarok uses svg graphics and an icon theme related with the KDE icon theme. Changes in Magnatune make possible choose between hq audio (ogg) or mp3 (it depends on the broadband connection).

Other “present” from the developers are some screenshoots. Here you can “admire” a pair of them.

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Tags: Amarok